Examined work of the nurse's aides (NAs) through observation and in-depth interviews with 30 NAs. Found efforts of NAs were clearly focused on getting work done well enough to stay out of trouble and decisions with implications for quality of care were often driven by whether NAs would be reprimanded by supervisors or ostracized by peers.…

Consultation-liaison psychiatry program in teaching nursing home helped implement six guiding principles, including make patient human to the staff; assume no behavior is random; look for depression or psychosis as source of problems; reduce medications and medication doses; create more homelike environment; and use conditions in which learning…

Progress in the discipline of nursing is predicated on the development of a community of scholars who have a passion for substance. Nurse educators are challenged to develop programs and environments that stimulate and nurture scholarship. Includes a discussion of strategies for development of scholarly doctoral education. (Author)

Discusses the limited number of African Americans involved in any aspect of nursing programs--as undergraduate students, doctoral candidates, and faculty members. Also looks at the problems encountered by African Americans in academe. Offers strategies for recruiting and retaining African-American nursing faculty. (JOW)

Focuses on the moral and professional role of nurses in Russia as it was when it was still a part of the Soviet Union. Suggests that nursing education in Russia is reminiscent of the U.S. diploma curricula in the 1940s and 1950s. (JOW)

Grantsmanship involves more than writing a good proposal. Planning, building, and negotiating administrative support may make the difference in a successful research effort. (Author)

Faculty members faced with unethical behavior by students can be guided by an ethical decision-making framework to help them protect student and faculty rights and promote moral development. (Author)

A nurse-midwife committed to the value of general nursing education as a prerequisite to midwifery responds to Lois Muzio's article expressing the opposite point of view. (JOW)

Suggests that nursing faculty members must devote the five years following their dissertation to achieving tenure. Presents guidelines for tenure developed by the American Association of University Professors. Proposes a detailed five-year plan for achieving tenure. (JOW)

Describes the nursing professional doctorate degree program at the University of Colorado, which has been selected as a national model. The program prepares advanced nursing experts with a range of professional competencies so they can practice across clinical care specialties and function in all settings. (JOW)

Internal and external changes are affecting the role of nurse educators. They are challenged to help nursing education respond to the needs of a different type of health care system that may emerge. (SK)

Pre/posttest data from 44 nursing students participating in a practicum showed that their role orientation changed from that of faculty to staff nurse. The practicum appeared to facilitate their socialization into the work setting. (SK)

Nurses and nurse educators from the Soviet Union and the United States are exchanging information about curricula and practices in the two nations. The exchanges were initiated by a Wisconsin nurse educator's letter to Mikhail Gorbachev. (JOW)

The purpose of this article is to increase faculty awareness and understanding of the constraints and contradictions that are embedded within faculty work load formulas. An overview of critical social theory serves as a framework for the analysis of work load formulas within the context of their historical development and current usage. (Author)

Examined differences among nursing homes in rates at which they transfer patients to hospitals. Data from nursing staff and charts on 286 most recent transfers from 10 nursing homes revealed that, from relatively equivalent patient populations, high-rate facilities transferred more chronically ill, physically frail patients and patients with…